“To be honest I think we underachieved with the result that the car is capable of,” Ricciardo ventured.

“It’s just little things, and this midfield is so tight, a small lack of perfection and we potentially miss four points.

“We’ve just got to try and do better, I guess, try and figure out what we can execute and understand, why we fitted the hard instead of the medium, and if that was us being too cautious then let’s not be cautious.”

“I think where we missed out was the restart, we lost track position again (by) pitting, and then we fell behind Nico (Hulkenberg) and he was on a used tyre, I was on a new,” he added.

“I think we had a chance on that first lap to attack the guys in front.

“We were told we were able to fight, but I couldn’t really see him advancing with that tyre as I could with mine.

“Again we’ll see now, sort it out if strategically we could have maximised one car over the other.”

With just six points to his name, Ricciardo is currently experiencing the worst start to a season since his first full-time campaign with Toro Rosso in 2012.